DESCRIPTION

Do you want to shape the future of virtualized (SDN) networking in one of the world’s biggest public clouds?

The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) VPC Dataplane team owns the packet pipeline that powers customer’s EC2 VPC instances by providing features like elastic network interfaces, firewalls (security groups), routing, billing and monitoring. Our networking stack touches every single packet on every single host across our worldwide fleet in more than 30 regions, serving applications across E-Commerce, Finance, Healthcare, Media, Software, Machine Learning, and Government.

We are seeking a Software Engineer with experience in Embedded Software Development, Cloud Computing and Networking to join our VPC Dataplane team. This role will span multiple technology areas, providing an opportunity to innovate across a variety of platforms and systems.

With the extensive network and access to Principal, Sr. Principal and Distinguished Engineers across EC2, AWS and Amazon, you are surrounded by talent that will provide you opportunities to grow your skills and knowledge.

Key job responsibilities
Your responsibilities will include:

– Develop new features and enhancements for the VPC dataplane that run on embedded systems across our global fleet of EC2 hosts.
– Design and build secure and scalable services to enable monitoring, diagnostics, and automated recovery.
– Design and build next generation hardware/software validation platforms that enables efficient CI/CD.
– Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand and define requirements, design system architectures, and implement robust and scalable solutions.
– Continuously improve development processes, tools, and automation to enhance productivity and quality.
– Support junior engineers with scoping, design; providing mentorship to ensure the right development practices are followed.
– Be very hands-on; work with the engineering team to manage the day-to-day development activities by leading architecture decisions, participating in designs, design review, code review, and implementation.
– Communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
– 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
– Experience programming with at least one software programming language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
– Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

USA, WA, Seattle